Fort William and Campbeltown are two of Scotland’s better known west coast towns. The intrepid explorers that we are we’ve visited both and brought back some exceptional whisky. No fridge magnets or cuddly highland cows for us.
When not exploring the westernmost points on the map we’ve been doing a little blending, and we think you might enjoy what we’ve been up to.
Campbeltown
We’re not ones to use superlatives or exaggeration but our Campbeltown Mega Blend might be the best thing to come out of Kintyre since Paul McCartney noticed mist rolling in from the sea. We’ve taken whisky from all the working distilleries in Campbeltown and blended them into something special. This isn’t just a blend, this is a mega blend. Each whisky was aged for a minimum of 9 years and each brings something special to the palate. There are only a few hundred bottles, we wish we could have made more.
A couple of new dogs
A new Wee Mongrel and a Drookit Dug for 2025. The Drookit Dug is what we call our session dram, something really good that you don’t need to save for a special occasion. We created this with ourselves in mind, for evenings when a couple of friends drop round for a catch up. It’s a mix of malt and grain whiskies created from the same parcel of stock as before, but each has had another year to mature. One of the interesting aspects of Drookit Dug is it’s 45.2% vol but still cask strength, and created from whisky aged for a minimum of 9 years.
Our Wee Mongrel has a louder bark. With more than a hint of sherry this is fully sherry cask matured, refill Oloroso butt and 1st fill Pedro Ximenez hogshead with whisky aged for at least 22 years. It’s cask strength and very, very good. We believe this is our finest Wee Mongrel to date, let us know if you agree. We also think it’ll be our last Wee Mongrel for the foreseeable future. The whiskies we use are now so expensive it’s becoming cost prohibitive. We’ll see.
The highest peak
Iconic, bigger than anything in the country and quite the challenge, but enough about our famous rally win a few months back, instead let us introduce you to our Ben Nevis single malt. Ben Nevis has such a unique distillate character, it’s here in abundance but beautifully balanced with the wood, rounded by 26 years of maturation. The Ben Nevis distillery sits in the shadow of the UK’s highest mountain at Fort William. While most people return with blisters and knee problems we picked up a rather special 1999 hogshead. This is an exceptional single cask, single malt. Ben Nevis’s Japanese owners wisely keep most of their whisky for themselves, but we know a man who knows a man and were fortunate to get this little gem. We even managed to stop Chris from mentioning the war…
Ben Nevis 1999 Aged 26 Years
Aged beautifully in an ex-bourbon hogshead so there’s only 220 of these. Don’t delay. We avoided the obvious stereotypes and have Koi carp on the label as a gentle nod to the owners of Ben Nevis distillery.
Wee Mongrel
2025’s Wee Mongrel is a sherry finished stunner, if we do say so ourselves. A blend with a minimum age of 22 years there are, and will only ever be, 497 bottles. Probably our last Wee Mongrel we are sorry to say.
Campbeltown Mega Blend
Specially selected single malt from every working distillery in Campbeltown, expertly blended by our own fair hands. 1st fill bourbon Glen Scotia, 12 and 16yo Kilkerran and 10 and 21yo Springbank.
Drookit Dug
It’s back for 2025, but not for long… A perfectly balanced blend of grain and malt that have each been matured for a further 12 months. 45.2% ABV cask strength. At only £45 we think it’s perfectly priced as well.
On Our Travels
We’ll be in Sweden in September, sharing stories about our spirits and asking what the rallying is like to anyone we meet. We’ll be doing something similar in Denmark in October. Check our social media for news on venues and dates nearer the time.
We’re also attending the Glasgow Whisky Festival on November 8th. If you’re at any event we’re at please do come over and say ‘hello’, while we know we’re extremely important now we still like to make time for the little people…
LIMITED NUMBERS AVAILABLE
As ever at Little Brown Dog we are only able to bottle a small number of each of our whisky releases. We choose them carefully, each one is a whisky we’d drink ourselves, each one is different, there’s something special about it, that’s why we chose it. We like nothing better than talking about whisky and answering any questions you might have, so find us on social media. All of our available releases are on our website too.
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